THINK GLOBALLY, LOG LOCALLY
The Bush administration said last night that it will let stand
President Clinton's rule to ban road-building and logging on 58.5
millions acres of national forestland.  Sort of.  It seems the White
House intends to give local officials (the folks who don't like the
rule) the power to modify the ban on a case-by-case basis to allow
logging, mining, and drilling to occur.  The administration said the
planned changes would address concerns raised by a federal judge in
lawsuits brought by the state of Idaho and the timber giant Boise
Cascade to block the ban.  But environmentalists said the changes
were meant to erode the rule while giving President Bush cover --
under the pretense that the lawsuits gave him no choice but to revise
the policy.

straight to the source:  New York Times, Douglas Jehl, 04 May 2001
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/politics/04FORE.html>

straight to the source:  MSNBC.com, 04 May 2001
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/568612.asp>

do good:  Take action and tell Boise Cascade to stop logging old-growth
forests
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/dogood/forests.stm#boise>

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